The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, March 24, 1893, Image 3

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f » * i THE OLD FARAWAY MAKES HIS LAST TRIP TO THE POST OFFFCEi ' * ,> AkL A.N Po ^ . "Th« 1‘mi-idLk poUac,” ] xcri-Jinjfly RDit In f thcif he said, “ are exeri-Jmx'y iTOTt m'their way. ’They ■re persevorinif, ingenious, cunning and lli-ironghly rersed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to de mand. Thus, when 0 detailed to ns his mode of searching the premises at the Hotel I) , I felt entire confidence in his having mode u satisfactory inves tigation—so far ns his labors extended,” “I mean to say,” continued Dupin, while I merely laughed at his last ob servations, ‘'that if the Minister had been no more than a mathematician, the Prefect would have been under no necessity of giving me this cheek. I knew him, however, as both mathema tician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a'bold intriguant. Hitch a man,,I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary policial modes of action. lie could not have failed to an ticipate—and events have proved thet he did not fail to anticipate—the way- layings to which he was subjected. , lit; must nova foreseen, I rehectqd, the secret investigations of his premises. Hi'- frequent absences from home at night, which were hailed by the Prefect as certain aids to Ids success, I regarded onty as ruses, to afford opportunity for thorough search to the police, and thus the sooner to impress them with the conviction to which 0 , in fact, did Anally arrive—the conviction that the letter was not upon the premises. I felt, also, that the whole train of thought, which 1 was nt soma pains in (UUItidg to you just now, concerning invariable principle of policial action in searches iOt articles concealed—I felt that this whole.train of thought would necessarily pose through the mind of the Minister. It would imperatively lead him to despise all the ordinary nooks of concealment. He eould not, 1 reflected, he so weak as not to tee that the most , intricate and remote recess of his hotel would Us as open at his commonest elosets to ths eyes, to the probes, to the K ioto, and to ths microscopes of the feet 1 saw, in Ate, that he wottld be driven, at a matter of course, to slm* plUlty, if flat deliberately induced to it M a htatW iholee. You will remem ber, perhsps, how desperately the Prr' feet Jttighcd When I suggested, upon our first latefview, that It waa Just possible this mystery troubled hlto so much on account of its being so very lelfeividont." "! have never given the matter a thought," I said. "TWIW is a game Of pussies," ho re sumed, whlsh is played upon a map. One party playiflg requires another to And a given word—the name Of town, river, state or empire—any word, In short, upon the motley and perplexed •nrfaee of the chart. A novice in the gome generally seeks to embarrass his opponents by giving them the mdstmln' tttcly lettered names; but the adept »e' IWto eueh^ words as stretch, in large eharaQtcH, from one end of the chart to the other. These,Tike the orer-largeiy lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being ex* eesslvely obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the m«Wi inapprehcnslon by which the Intel] eef suffers to pass unnoticed those eonsl4emroflS%hwh sre too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident. Hut this la a point, it appears, somewhat above Or beneath the understanding of the Prefect Hu never once thought it S robatte, or possible, that tho Minister ad deposited the letter Immediately beneath the BOSS Of the whole world, byway of best preventing any portion of that world from perceiving it. ‘41ft the wore 1 reflected upon the daring, sashing, and discriminating in- l upon the fact that the always have been at In tended to use it to good Si and upon tho decisive evidence, Inefl hy W Prefect, that it was not , within ths limits of that dlgnl- r» ordinary search—the more satis- correspondence. lint, then, theratilcal- ncss of these differences, which was ex cessive; the dirt; the soiled and torn condition of tjie paper, sp inconsistent with the true methodical habits of D , and so suggestive of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document; these things, together with the hypev-obtru- sive situation of the document, full in the view of every visitor, and thus ex actly in accordance with the conclusions, to which I had previously arrived; these things, I say, were strongly corrobor ative of suspicion, in one who came with tho intention to suspect. “I protected my visit as long as possi ble, and, while 1 maintained a most an imated discussion with the Minister, upon a topic which I knew well had never failed to interest and excite him, I kept my attention really riveted upon the letter. In this examination, I com mitted to memory its external flp])ear- ance and arrangement in the i-ack; and also fell, at length, upon a discovery, which set at rest whatever trivial doubt I might have entertained* In, ricruti- wri A«4 t betaine that, to conceal thiaietter, , the Mfetotcf intffIVHsWtcff to the compre- henalve and tagMioui expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all, •'Full of theae ideaat I prepared myaclf with a pair of green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by acci dent, it the Ministerial hotcL I found I) at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, cs usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. lie Is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being now alive—but that Is only when nobody sees him. "To be even with him, I complained of my weak eyes, and lamented the necessity of the spectacles, under cover of which I cautiously And thoroughly surveyed ths whole apartment, whiles tsemjfngly intent only upon the conver sation of my host ~ ••I-paid ospeotor vttentlov.'tor a large writing-table near whten he sat, and Upon which lay confusedly, some mis- d'dlanaous tetters end Other papers, with one 0* two tittuieal instruments and a tew books. 8«w, however, after a long ‘and very deliberate scrutiny, I saw nothing to excite particular suspicion. "At length* my eyec, in goltg int eiwult of the room, tell upon a trumpery filigree card-rack of pasteboard, that hnAg dangling by a dirty blue ribbon, from a little braes knob just beneath the middle of the mantle-piece. In this rack, which bad three or four ComparV nwnto, wan * vs or si* visiting cards and a so’ltary letter. This last wa» much soiled and crumpled. It was torn nearly in two, aaross the middle—oe if » design, ih the first instance, to tear it en> tivaiy tt» as worthless, had been altered, or siflM.M tho sacotd. It bad a large black wal Wiriflg the 0—cipher Very conspicuously, and was addressed, in i diminutive female hand, to D—", the ^Minister, himself, It was thrust core* lesafy; and even, as it seemed, contempt uously, Into one of the uppemnoat div^ skrtto Of the rack. “Ko sooner had I glanced at this let ter. than I concluded'it to bd that of, . which 1. ww In search. To be sure, it was. to all eppsarenee, radically differ ent from the otto of Whieh the Prefect had read uc so minute a description, Here tho seal was large and black, w}th the D-rr- cipher; there it was small and red, with the arms of the 8-— 1 family. Here, tho addrem, to ( tha Mln- feter. was diminutlva and- feminine; thvte the sobsoriptiot. J a oerUih'royal nizlng the eflgcs.of the pajv^, I (qpse^red them to be more chafed than 'peemed necessary. They presented the broken appearance which is manifested when a stiff paper, having been once folded and turned, as a glove, inside out, is re-direo- ted and re-scaled. I bade the Mlnlstfr good morning, and took my departure at once, leaving a gold snuff-box upon the table. The next morning I called for the snuff-box. when wo resumed, quite eagerly, the conversation of the preced ing day. While thus engaged, however, a loud report, as If of a pistol, was heard immediately beneath the windows of the hotel, and was succeeded by a series of fearful screams, and the shoutings of U terrified mob. D—- rushed to a ease ment, threw it open, and '.coked out. 1c the meantime, I stepped to the card- rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simllc. (so far as regards externals,) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings —Imitating the D cipher, very read lly, by means of a seal formed of bread. " Ths disturbance in the street had bean occasioned by the frantic behavlo, of a man with a musket. Us had fired It among a crowd of women and child ren. It proved, however, to have been without ball, and the fellow was suffered to go his way as a lunatic or a drunkard. When he had gone, D- eame from the window, whither I hod followed him Immediately upon se curing the object in view, Soon after wards I bade him farewell The pro tended lunatic was a man in my owr pcy.” “Hut what purpose had you." T asked "in replacing the letter by a fae-ohnlV. Would it cot have been better, nt thi first visit, to hats seized it openly, and departed?" “1)——,” replied Unpin, “Is’a des perate man, and a man of nerve. Mi hotel, too, Is not without attendants do- voted to his-interests. Mad I made the wild attempt you suggest, I might never have left the ministerial presence alive. The. good people of Paris might have heard of mo no more. Hut I had an object apart from these considera tions. You know my political pro possessions. In this matter, I act as a partisan of the lady concerned. For eighteen months tho minister has had her in his power, She has now him in hers—since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was, Thus will he inevitably commit himself, nt once, to his political destruction. His downfall, too, will not be more pre cipitate than awkward. It is all very well to talk about the facile, descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, ns Catalan! said of singing, It Is far more easy to get up than to come down. In tho present instance I have no sym pathy—at least no pity—for him who descends. lie is that monstrum horren- dum, an unprincipled man of genius. 1 confess, however, that I sluinhi like Vrry Well fo know the precise cimmcter of his thoughts, when, being defied by her whom tho prefect terms ‘ a certain personage, 1 he is reduced to opening the letter which I left for him In the card- rack.” " How? did you put anything purtto- ular in it?” "Why—It did not seem altogether right to leave the interior blank—that would have been Insulting. D , at Vienna once, did me nn evil turn, which I told him, quite pood humoredly, that I should, remember. So, as I knew he Would feel some curiosity In regard to the identity of the person who had out witted him, 1 thought it a pity not to give him a clue. He is well acquainted with my MS., and I Just copied into the middle of the blank sheet the words; Farewell to the Old Road—6oirip ! West Where a Man Can Me r aW ; Xcvcr Notice It. .[From I’eiiiwylvttuia Grit.) ; 0n the road’' from Hardscrabble to the post -oflice there is a very |teep hill; to (jofTown Jiefjire reaching^the. bottom-lauds of the old Susquehan- h'river. I wish I had a dollar for every tifrue I crawled up that old hill. For j|ars 1 have made that daily!, trip tt> llje post office, for my business was 1 done through the post office’ de partment. Every good thing comes through the little country post office at Chatham’s Hun, and many, many of the great disappointments I have uttered during these years came through the same channel. ^ . Yes, everything Idiavc hoped for came through this fettle^xtot office, and every hope that died came back to me through the little window at the post office, and I have carried thousands of these dead hopes in my weary heart and so sadly, sadly walk ed up this old dug hill road with de spair in my soul and a bitter feeling against the whole world, Ah, good lands of lead feathers on a pewter duck, if all the heavy hearts I have carried up this old hill could be weighed in a largo balance, it would-take a big chunk of Bald Eagle mountain to make the heavy hearts swing clear of ihe ground. But oue time I went up this old dug hill road and knew it would likely be the lust time I would ever travel over that old familiar road, knew I was going far.- away, with no intontion-or hope of ever coming buck. I stood on top of the hill and look ed down into the valley, and I wou .’pebe^ratod,; ^tjt, lieiilfttpjij^theii And I turn my back to the valley aiyl river'and go bnt over the old fjiimliir'road to Hardscrabble for the last time. Dear old Hardscrabble, with-itsibleak) bills jinjl bair«n %lils; an<T poverty; ljut oil, Se fcfdtfy wa»m' hearts and friendly faces—so many dear, friends, whom Imayjneyer see .. .Jt.. ! A. ft.*,, *1 «T\- * x ■ ii pp Up^ure soon Jjqtcrpsjforgotteu. again in this life. * it Ah, what makes this old heart so heavy at the thought of going away? Will there come a time in the future whfert I ’shall'wake' tip at Jftnfhight In a strange land au^^feel; my> heart hungering for these old hills and these old frieuds-whotfCl-have feiiown since childhood? . I duuno, I dunno; men go ,o‘ff m search of- peace uhd coliteritmieht and die of a broken heart before they find it—die sometimes with a broken head while searching for.it. Dear old Hardscrabble! I used to think .that nothing could persuade me 4q leave the dear dreary old place. No "other place'seems to lit me so comfortable as Hardsrabble, for we are both poor and unassuming and tjentent to live withdbt society and eat With a knife at Cable and patch Our own trousers. Often and often I would ask my self why I was going away, and the only answer I could give was: A man is never appreciated in hisown coun try. A man always over-estimates bis usefulness, while his neighbors always under-estimate his usefulness. People grow up with a man and never notice that heps growing wise, Just the same as the man who feeds the pig every day does not know that the pig is growing fat. I have no influence in Hardscrab ble. I left the Republican party years ago, because they contracted the currency and made times so hard that 1 couldn’t afford store tobacco, but not a voter went with me. Last summer X discovered that the Dem- ‘tin decscln * 1 , , as dSAtree, Mt 4 S'U n'ert divas Thyssts.’ They are to be found •Atreo.'" vnsde in CiebXUcn'i All the elements which nature re quires, to make the hifir beautiful and abundant, are supplied hi Ayer’s Hair Tigor.' This preparation keeps the sculp free from dandruff, pre- ,'ente.‘ttyc hair frtiin becoming dry and harsh, and makes it flexible and glossy. _ 'or Malaria,'liver Tro;;- hlOjOrlndlgcction, a;-.*- SHOWN 1 S IRON E ITT EX 5 .;; When one woman praises another, folks think,she h sarcastic.. * Children Cry tir Pitciierls Castoria. Guaranteed Cure. ■ j We autkorfec our advertised druggist to sell Dr, Kings Now Discovery for Con sumption, Cduj.In and Colds, upon this tonolUon. lf .you -ateatlltcted .with a dough, C niff or any Long, Throat or Cher rouble, and Will use this remedy Ai d .ted, givlngj; a fair trial. inM ex- peK. -oe no boner,t, you may return ■ the ix-.ule and have your money refunded. We could not make this offer did we no; knotv that Ur. iiinjfe •£>«, DLebvery could be rolled 6ii. ft never disappoints. free at wilicox’i Rriig titors, »lt« Mfe, tout #>»*; ~ ly cVuCIW vXIUi lAAi 1 could be rolled » Trial bottlee ft t\W**»H* miss me when X went away and they would see me no more. And I wondered, too, how much X would miss all the good friends 1 was leaving behind, and whether X would ever long to sec those green bills and blue, mountains which have been my companions through-all my past life. The evening I stood ou top of the oid dtfg’hUl, there was a haa'd organ grinder down in the vufley grinding "Bock of A_ges,” and ever and anon the sweet strains of that old familiar air came to me on the southern breeze, and my heart became home sick at the very thought of going away from my native village to try my fortune in the midst of the bald- headed Rocky mountains. Could yon blame me for‘feeling bedoOkleci" with home-brewed brine iu my tear shed, while 1 stood there taking a last look down the old road where L had. meandered, so often, sometimes happy and hopeful, and often us sud us the pan of dough on which the cut laid. Perhaps it was the sad cadence of that old tune coming up on the eve ning wind that made me feel so be- dooiiled, for the music stopped -sort of suddenly, and 1 grew more cheer ful at once. X never heard whether the organ grinder buished grinding the rock to powder, or whether Jim Yarrick gut ii, chunk of it out of the hopper and bit the Italian a biff with it on the head, but 1 rather think there was no nickel forthcoming and he stop ped grinding rocks because it didn’t pay., After the music stopped I got into a sort of dreamy predictive frame of mind, and I amagined Col. Eckert and his dog Dan going along this same road' two years hence and never thinking of me. Ah,^e8,.Iww'soon we forget each other in this. busy life. Dan will be running at the colonel’s side trying to nose up a rab bit track, and the colonel will be speculating on how soon the candi date's will lob up to enthuse him in the Democratic cause, uud he will Foarcely give me a single thought tinless 1 have written to him about that time for money enough to fetch ane buck to llurdscittbblev ! Aud iu that predictive vision 1 saw Wuwkawmeojtlft Merrill going along the road wishing ho could strike a crowd of boys uud have a game of poker. Ah, ,I kii^yv so well that only a few know Unit I ant going away—only a few. The people can live without me. No oue knows this better than 1 do. One hmn is bnt a drop in the ocean of humanity, and everybody has ctujes^enough qf their own, mid w^imve noting togSeVetiveFfrioCfls wWo go-oft and-leavw ns. Parting with friends is like.puHing a splinter out of your' heel—hurts u little at tlrit-J^ puijwueu to .tlw RAILROAD SCHEDULES. « ' •»» C” ir :•■■■» i r.il-1 S.&MR, R," Dateii'.Jftnpary 10, ; goino^nor'th. 1 Train No. 1. Daily except Smidity. Leave Charleston 6.50 a m Pregnall’s 8.15 Harleysville 8.30 i Pecks 8.51 Holly Hill 8.55 Connors 9.04 Eutawville 9.15 l Vances 9.31 j Summcrton 10,17 Sumter Oswego i St. Charles i Elliotts j Lamar \ Syracuse j - , DaiJi^SV#®. 5 Mont Clare 3 Robins Neck Mandeville' Bennettsville Alice Gibson , Hamlet - GOING Si Train No. 2. Daily eexcept Sunday. Leave Wc Won...... ....... Arrn c itocky Mount. Airivo Tarborb..... Leariio yaTborO’ Arrive •W^sOxL.’.'. r.u. 12.01 p m 12.21 12.35 -1.00 ?1.20 fel.41 ■^.05 2.21 p 2.41 30.1 3.21 .56 . I^ave HoltlsbdTO licave Wursaw Leav'd .’.., AitIvo Wilmington.. m L’ve ‘l 7.50 p m 8.40 L; , fkQO » 9.30 ' '9.50- 10.10 •' v 10:'26 r " 10.46 11.11 11.31 j f,:U.66 12.16 g m 12.30 12.50 tiered how much the people would j ocra tio party was just as'rotten-as the one I had left—that both par' ties •would sacrifice honor and virtue aud their grandmother for the sake of oflice. I left the Democratic party then, but not a voter went with me. None of them coul-.l see tile thing as I saw ttf, Xfkeemg that tfe Hardscrabble air isn’t rare and Hear enough for the people to see the same us X do, and 1 hud to go to the’ far West where the air is so clear tmdfure that 4 man can see milling iu every spec- ulatiou, even if he is; reduced to the necessity of ion-owing two cents to post u letter home for a small loan of bed clothes. I had a friend who went' West'be fore 1 did, and he used to write to me and tell me how cold it got out there, and that the thermometer went down to thirty-six helow: zero, but the air was so light and rare and blear and pure that you would never notice the cold! It was just the opposite in the summer time, and the thermometer would go up to 1U S in the shade, but tho air was so pure and clear and rare and light that yon would never notice it. In less than ayear this friend wrote to me that he had lost all his moaey, out wound up with the old Western stereotyped expression of praise; "The air is so pure uud clear and rare and light that X never noticed my loss yet.” Well, he borrowed a little money and two flannel shirts aud a heavy pair of suspenders from me, and in a few weeks be wrote to me that he had lost all again, but the air was so rare uud pure and light and clear that he Cud never felt the loss yet. Well, the air was too heavy in old Hardscrabble for me to bear my loss patiently, so 1 hud to puck ftp uhffgo wltere the air is pure and rare and dear, ete 7 etc., etc.-'- Up to date the Western air hasn’t made mu forget much, although it is so rare and pure and light and dear that my friend is still invisible to the naked eye; aud the sheriff has been looking for him too, aud swears if he gets a shot at him he will find the air so light and pure and clear and rare that he will turn up his toes without noticing it. Faraway Moar Hamlet Gibson » , AUce- i^ BcnuetLsville • MUndeviile Robins Neck. I Mont Clare ! Darlington ’ Syracuse i Lamar Elliotts St. Charles Oswego Sumter GOING NORTH. Train No. 21, daily except Sunday; Leave Sumter ; Oswego *. ■ St. Charles: Elliots Lamar Syracuse , Darlington Mont Clare • Bobbins Neck Mandeville'-: Arrive Bennettsville GOING SOUTH, ;• .- i Train No. 22, dally .except Sunday, Leave Bennettsville 0 53 a m Holly Hill , Mandeville . Robbins Neck Mont Clare Darlington Syracuse t Lamar • *, ^ . Elliots .1 i*. df « St. Charles' ' Oswego ! Sumter Summerton Vances Eutawville' v - Gsfinoh •<■-*- Harleyville . 4,01 Prgnalls 4.10 Arrive Olwleston 6,00 Connection made at Hamlet to and from Portsmouth, Norfolk Raleigh, Che raw and Wadesboro—at Bennettsville with C. F. & Y. V, for Maxton, McColle, Fayetteville and Greensboro. E. D. KYLE. General Passenger Agent 0 45a in 717 7 51 813 848 0 42 1040 1115 1140 l»10pm 1240 8.37 728 753 818 053 1020 11.08- 1180 . 1321-pm 1250 2 00 2 43 318 380 .8*7 - - « * ii- '>*; y ■ - v . _ ‘"I have uted Ay^rt Hair Tiger for a number of years, and it has always given me satisfaction. Xt is an ex criiott dressing, prevents the hair from turning gray, insures its vigor ous growth, and .keeps-the scalp white aud clean.”—Mary A. Jack- sou, Salem, Mass, Buckleu’s Arnica Salvo. The best salve in the world for cuts bruises, sores, ulcers, s#Jt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hinds, chilblains corns,- aad all skiu crujftious, aqd posi tively cures piles, or'nu pay required'.' It isguarant eeedtogivcperiect satistactiou, or money reiunded, Price 25 cants per boRle,- ft! tote at W4to«’» drug iter* Condensed Schedule, Nov. 27,1892. NpRTH BOUND; No. 2, Daily, except Sunday. Leave Wilmington, ., 6 0Q a m Arrive Fay.ettviile,8.93 Leave Fayetteville, 8 27 Sonfordf . . ,., 0 48 Leaye CUmax, 11.44 Arrive GteensbQrOj " 12.15 pm Ldtee.Gtoepsboio^ ^ j Leave Stokesdale, 1. 23 Arrive Walnut Cove, ... 1 53 Leave Walnut Cove 8.83 Leave Rural Hall, : , -ii, 0?., Arrive Mt. Airy, 4 25 .SOUTH B,0'UNR. . No. 1. Daily except Buwlny. Leave Mt. Air ry. Leave Rural Hall 13 00 m 122 p m 152 ■2’80 2 57 ‘8 40 843 418 0 00 7 30 747 11 00 Arrive Walnut Cove, ..., Leave Walnut Cove, ... Stokesdale , .. Arrive Greensboro Leave Greensboro!. [ Climax Sanford, , t Arrive Fayetteville ‘ Leave Fayetteville, Arrive W ilmingfon', NOUtH.BOUND. . No. 4, Daily except Sunday. Leave Bcanettsville, ., .5.40am Maxton. , , .... . .',6 (10 Red Springs, , . . . .7 02, Leave Hope Mills,., . , .7.48 Arrive Fayetteville, .. . 8 02 SOUTHBOUND. No/ 3, Daily except-Sunday. Leave Fayetteville, • - *• 7 47 p m Hope Mills, - ■< "! 805 Red Springs, , ->• 8 40 Maxton, /' 0 20 Arrive BefinettsVillST . 1015 SOUTH BOUND. . • No. 18, daily except Sunday Leave Ramseur, ’ ' 7 Wilmington &;!W«lHon R. R. s and BiTtnchea GOING SOUTH.. - DATED Oct. Sth, 1803 i •* ? v’V .• cs ctSs c= = •** • •• p. nv.* 1 ]’). ni. a\ m/. 12,yu oo v iHo! (fay 7 bo ..;..... 1358:,-TWOO 1 ■. •y-.s... p. m. p. iii. a. ni... ..^. ■ •Sitj, • 7.00 7.40 . p. m. p. in. 41. in. ... .. ■* 3 iir '7-40 iB30» - 4 14 .v. 4 27- tjP) ‘ 4* 44* . v 55LlJ 0 00 . 0.5Q;. J • GfoiJiO.SOL'TU. Lpivc Wlrs'on ATtive tosln»v V i i • Ajriyc Fay^cttsytllc No. 23 daily. . ' " *2 TjO 'p m 5 20 * aiir GOING NOROH. j - . ;t t(. i’ j jbati-d’may 31, isfe. nr a. ini,«.■'«t: r.-vn.t; .I...V 4 SO- Isjftvo Wilminuton is a, 0 ir> Iqavei MaAU6litrr.xv.'. i .-. tl-5fiv 10 Isin vu Warsaw I 1111 A^rivc-'UbldsUoru.:.. Ixsive Faycttuvitiol.. Dciivo Selma....... Arrive Wilson v — Lcnvo Wiison... Anvc Tarboro •ii (IC. 0 15 »>580 Beet- ■ iT IW: . a. m. . .L}135;..._...L,... p.-ln.i f....... ^.j ...^1JS* a. ni. p. in. p. ni. I 33T>i 12 58 H IU- 4031 IWl '8 39; Arrivo'Vtldon, a. ra. p. m. *(i 3u is .4. B M ., a. ra. p. ra.'p. m. 5U5 265' 10 DO ‘!. ....—Dated Januaxy. _ •, G0 5 ING..SOUTII;.r ^ , : , r , / ^Jo.15, Daily,; ^ Reave Fl&rcndb"' * 'trS.I 'ft ta: “ Kingstree 7 35 ■ ■ Lanes- T'Y VISS Arrive .Charleston - 9 44 . / j Leave Florence *10.50 p m Leave Kiftgst reel - • A 1 aif 'fl?Mt Arrive Lanijs , 12.08 „ a-m - Arrive CharMstonr -fi/lO 1 - Ndir23, Daily;' 2 - '-^jw v. v-' A-' M^oOpjm LeavelFForehcb'" Kingstree Arrive Lanes Afrive.Chiyiestop; . 'j " No. 53. - t Lpavc Lanes 'AkrtVe'ChtotestoiivjM j - I t issr^ &38l. .. . *8.45 p. m v’ ‘i!;,’. Til ir *• , * n*IV! " GOING NORTH. Kingstree, Arrive Fiorence''' w-OlOS 4v‘‘Vtto 0.03 , ^ o.tf 7.10 . i a, m •Daily except Sunday. Train on the Scotland Neck Rranch Road" leaves Weldon 4(Xt p - m, Halifax 4^2 pm, arrive Scoitiaud Neck at 5.15 p in, Greenville 0 52 p m, Kinston 8 00 pm. Returning leaves Kinston 7.30 a m, Greenville840 p m. arriving Hal ifax a'# 1.25 a in, Weldon 1145 a in daily Accept Sunday. Trains on Washington Dmneh leave Washington 730 a in, arrives I’anuele 9 00 am. Returning leaves 1‘armele 7Q0 p m, arrives Washington 8 20 p.m. Daily except Sunday. Connects with trains on Albemarle and Raleigh R. R. and Scotland-Neck Brack. Train leaves Tarboro, N. C., via Al bemarle and Raleigh R. R. daily ex cept Sunday, at 4 40 p m, Sunday 8 00 pm; afrlve WiHlaraton 703 pm, 4 20 pdt; plymouth 830 p m, 5 20 p m. Re turning leaves Plymouth dally, ex cept Sunday, 0 20 a m, Sunday 9 00 u ni, Williamstou 750 a m, 958 a m; ar rive Tarboro 1100 a maud 1120 am. Trains on Southern Division, Wilson and Fayetteville Branch leave Fayette ville 530 p to, .arrive Rowland -713 p m. Returning leave Rowland 735 a ni, arrlvd Fayetteville 020 a m Daily except Sunday, - , - .- Train on Midland N, C, Brandt leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday. 000-a m, arriving SnuUtiida 7 30- u m, Returning leaves Smitbtield 800 am; arrive at G'dldlsboifo 030 a fn'.‘: :■ Train on Naebyille. Branch leaves leaves Rocky Mount at (i 40 p m, arrives Nashville'7 15 p m‘, Spring Hope 7 40 p m. .Retpruiug leaves Spring Hope 800 am, Nashville 835 u nt, arrive at Rocky OlAa-m, daily except Sunday. ' .Train on CiltUpn Brandi leaves War- saW ibr Clinton daiiy 1 except SiiUday, at 020 pm and- I Ho a m. Rcuiriting Beturumg leaves Cilutou at 820 a m and 8Tb p m, connecting at Warsaw with Nos 41,-40, 23, and 79, - Southbound train on Wilsort and Faydttevllle Branch is No, 61, North bound is No,-.50. *Daily excipt Sum day, ; Trains No. 27 South and 14 ,North Will stop only at Rocky Mount, Wilson, Goldsboro aud Magnolia. Train No. 78 makes dose connection at Weldon for all points North daily. All rail via Richmond and dally except Sunday via Bay Line. 'Also at Rocky Mount daily except Sunday, with Nor folk and Curolihu Railroad for Norfolk and all points North via Norfolk. JOHN F. DIVINE, Geu’l Supt. J. R. KENBY, GeuT Manager. T. M. EMERSON Trailio Manager. No. 78, Daily) LfcataGfearfettoffn.-i: tra. ^:rtl,3fiahnv< Arrive Lancs _ . , 3.22 Leave Lancs'" 1 to i Kingstree 3 40 Afrive Flo^toy.U , D/.KIH No.Cfl, Daily. _ . Leave Charleston , 6 42-Jwn ,**> 1.1.- .-qtfiirrr 7 55 No. 1L .Daily r Leave Charleston Arrive Lanes Leave Lanes Kingstree ■ \ Arrive Fiorence- No. 52,-Daily. Leave Charleston Arrive Lanes." ♦ ♦Daily. tDailyext*i«Dunday.• ,L. In addition, to above. .Train : No.- 00 ’■> leaves Gliarlestoh 5 30 p m, arrives Labes’ 1 7 20 pm,. Daily. ^ Train No. ,01 leaves Lanes 2.00 p -jm,.. arrives Charleston 350'p m. Daily. No. 53 rtms ihrougli To Columbia via Central U. R. of-.8.'C.’ . Nos. 78, run solid to Wilmington N) C. making dose connection with W A W. R.TC tor all points North.- Trains Nos. 14 aud lili run via Wilson aud Fayetteville—Short Line—anil m'ake dose connection for all points Northi! T. M. EMERSON Trallic'Manager. J. R. KENLY, .Gcneral Manager. J.F. D1 VINE, General Superintendent : W., C. & A. Railroad. GOING SOUTH, No. 28. No, 50. 0;41 10:25 Dated January 1,1803, Leaves Wilmington * 0:85 p. m. Marion " “ Arrives at Florsnce Leaves Fiorence Arrives at Sumter NcnSG.' Leave Sumter 485 a, m. Arrive Columbia 615. No. 52. Leaves Sumter *0:43.a, m , Arrives at Columbia 1&.-68' ' ' No. 58. Leaves Florence t 7:45 Arrive. uCSaaRet. . 0:20 No. 52. run? through from Charleston via Ceufra> Railroad,' leaving LUaek 8.83 a m., Manning 9.09 a. m... No. 51 '^0. 53. 00 a m 8 50 0 45 Leave Climax, Arrive Greensboro .SOUTHBOUND. No. 15 Daily, except Sunday. Leave G re ensboro... 4 00 p m Leave Climax 4 55 Arrive Ramseur 0 80 NOUTH BOUND. No. 16, Ds'iv except Sunday. .Leave Greensboio, 1015 am. Stokesdale 11.40 Arrive Madison 12 30 p m. SOUTH bound; No,. 15, daily except Sunday. Leave Madison ' ■ 115 pm. Leave Stokesdale . , 1 310 Arrive Greensboro 8 20 Train No. 2 connects at ■Sanford with Seaboard Air Line for Raleigh, Norfolk and all points North,'ahd at Walnut Cove WithtMlNbrfolk & Western K. R. for Winston-Salem, Roanoke and all points North and West of Roanoke. Passengers from Wilmington, Fayette ville, Bennettsville and all points south -of Sanford will arrive at Raleigh at 11:15 ». m), ahd : Imtetobout 5:h<)0<s ffl Itelfeigh, returning reach home sftme day, • Train No.-l cennects at Walnut Gove with Norfplk and Westerp.,HaUroad for WiBaton-Salem, and . v ' tnforj .with Seaboard. AU Line for Mua. ae, Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta and all ppip,ta South and Southwest, Seaboard Air Line. In connection with Charleston, Sumter and Northern It. It., for Charlotte, Monroe, Wadesboro, Rock ingham, Raleigh, Henderson, Wel don, . I’ortsmouth, Norfolk, itich- tiioud, Washington, Baltimore, Phila delphia and New York, and points North and East. ixarlingtou* Jeavo *4 43 a m, uriivc 1100 p m. Boxmuiiejviiie, leave 5 40 u m, arriv'e 0 30 p m. (iibson, arrive 0 00 a m, leu\ e ‘ 910 p m. (^ibson, leave 10 40 a m, arm e b 30 p m. llumlet, airive 7 5J0 a m, leave 7 50 p m. Hamlet, leave b 15 a m, arri\ e 1105 a m. Huckiiighum, arrive b 55 u m, leave 10 i0 a m. WudentMjio, arrive 10 40 u m, leu\ o 0 ^0 u m. Moin-oe, arrive 120 p m, leave 7 a in. Charlotte, arrive 3 xo p m, leave 1500 a m. fly alet, leave *7 40 a m, arrive 7 50 p m. Ualelgh, leave 1117 a m, arrive 4 05 p >a. Henaerson, leave 13 50 p m, arrive iri 00 p m, JV’elUou, leave 45 p m, arrive 15 p m. Via Atlantic Coast Line. tVeklon* leave15 p m; ai rive \210 p in. i 'etersburK, arrive 5 00 p ra, leave 10 tO u m.3 tichmond,aiyive,*05 pm, leave bb50am. j Vuahintftou, arnvo 1110 p iniTcav'e 410 a m. Haltimore, arrive W ib a m, leave ^50 a m. . Philada, arrive 3 45 a m, leave 1« 03 a m. ^Jew York, arrive 050 u m, leave *000 p m/j Weldon, leave *300 p m, arrive 1203 p m. Vourtsmouth arrive 5 5u p m, leave 0 35 a m. Norfolk (Ferry), arrrive o 10 p m, I've *0 aj a m Via Bay Line. Portemout U, leavo 46 UU i> m arrive- 83Uu m. Old 1’olut, arrive 7 UU p lu, leave 7 UU u m. Daltlmore, fti-rive 7 UU a m, leave 7 UU p ra. I'lillaiiu, arrive IU 47 a m, leave 4 41pm. Sow York, arrive 1 ‘Al p iu, leave ts iu p m. Via N. Y. F. & N. lt. it. Pourtamoth, leave *555 p ra, arrive 010 a m, Old Point, arrive 7 00 p m, l^a\ e b 00 a m; Doinm, arrh e 100 a pi, leaye ^ 55 a ra. Philada, arrive 510 a ra, leave 1115 p in. Kqvt York, arrive 800 a in, leave *buu p ra, *Dally. tbaily, except dunduy. Through Puilraau Mcopera Oetween Ports- mouth and Hamlet, Pullman Sleepers run be tween Capo Charles and New York via N, V P. 5c N. It. At. Pullman adeeporw on train bo tween Weldon and New York, For further Information apply U> ticket agent 'Chharjeaton, £tiinter & Northern itailroad, B. llreakfast Divine, 8. Superintendent; O, V r l Smith, Trailio Manonger; Jno. c. Winder, Gen Manager; F, C. liryah, Asst Gon Paa&euger Ag’t; T, J. Anderson, Paaseuger Agent. The Hartsville Railroad. Bated Jauuary 4,1892. DAILY MIXED TRAIN. GOING'NORTH ' ' ' Leaves Columblc *10,45 p. m,.'' • Sumter 12:hu a.m. . Arrives m-Florence 1:39 a: m No. 78, Leqves'Florence ■' 5:10a*m’' Marion 5:58- Arrive at Wiliniagton-9:10, - i*‘) Leaves Columbia *6:10 p. m iVrriyes at Sumter ‘7:25 No, 50, LV. Sumter ’ t7.80 lj i ! Ar. Florence 8.50 •„ ♦Daily.' fDaily, except Sunday. No. 03 ruiia through to Charleston j 'via Central R. It.,.arriving at Mauning 8:iH) p. m./Lanes 8:40 p. m., Charleston 10:40 , p. m. , '’ ' Train on Manchester & Augusta It.,IF leaves Sumter daily, except SundXy, : ai''- 10.50 a. m.; arrives at Rimini-11.59 a. m. Returning' leaves Rimini 12130 p. in., ar rives at Sumter 1.40 p.-m.' Trains ou llartsvillo II. R. leave Harts-, ville.daily except Sunday at 5.00 a. m:/ arriving Floyds 5.35 a'm. Itet'urHhgt leave hloyds 9.45. p. m., arriving•Ba^ia^■ viile 1010 p. m. ' .' 'V Trains 'em'Wilmington Chadbourn & ' Conway railroad leave Chadbourn 10.30, a. m., arrive Conway 1 00 p. m., returning' leave Conway at 3.30 p. m. arrive Cliad-. bourn 5.20 p. in. i.eavo Chadbourn 7.15 U. m. and5.60p.m., arrive Hub at 8.00 a. m. and0.25p.m. Itcturning leave Hub 9.00 a. in. and 0.45 p. m.. arrive Chadbourn 9.45 a. .n. and 7.30 p. iu. Daily except Sunday. ; . J. It. KEN LEY', General Manager. ■ T. M. EMBltSON, Traffic Managers. . .-■ J. F. DIVINE, General Supenuteudent, Atlantic Const Line. C. & D. and C. & S. Railroads. Dated January 2/1803< GOING DOWN , 4 4 « Leaves Waiksboro 1:40 Pr Mi Lennctt’s 2:1)1 ‘ Morven’s • : ,2:35 ., ^ McFarlanl 2:40 Cheraw ‘ 4:00 '►>•' Cash’s . . , ,4:30,. Society Hill 5:05 . Dove’s 5:46- ' ' Floyd’s ■, 6:00, , Darlington ‘ 6:35 i Palmetto • • • 6:40 ■ • ' ’ Arrives aj Florence 7:00 : . GOING UP. Leaves Florence 8:86 A.'Mi ! Palmetto 6:60 Darlington . 7:30. Floyd’s Ttffi Dove’s • 8iUi Society llili 8:40 'Cash’s 9;35 Cheraw ' 10:00 . ‘ McFarland . 11:45, , . Morven’s 18:05 “ 1 Bennett’s ' 13:30 Arrives at Wadesboro . 12:45 Freight Train Going tip. Leaves Fiorence 0:00 A. M Arriv Darlington 9;45 . ,v Freight Going Down. Leaves Darlington „ .5:0fl I*, M- Arrives at Florence 5:45 A, F. RAVENEL. Presic it. Leaves Hartsville, Jovann, Floyd’s, Darlington Arrive at Florence . 5:55 A. M 0:20 0:40 9.00 ,0.50 = .THE = This train makesconnectiou with he South botihd passenger train on the Cho raw & Darlington Railroad.- ' ‘ RETURNING. Leaves Florence Leave Darlington, Floyds.’ Jovann, Arrive at Hartsviffd ,2:00 P..M. 2 35.iv m 8 10 8 0q. 8.50 $2;00 a Year Containing more matter than any magaziije published in' America. Address ’ ■ . *- J.W.FRY, i This train waits twp hours, If usees- Mry, for the Nsfth bOvmd freight trait 0ftU« U. * DrU. W, J, L,.COKER, ’’ '* v„,. , •rd ,4» •"*'